Winston, Ladislav and others what sources do you use? I am just sick of the US media even in the small doses I get once or twice a week. The stridency is just too much for me even if I agree with the presenter. I am just fed up with so much of US culture.

So where do you get news that reports about the world with a minimum of left or right bias?

Not an expat per se (I only spend 2 months out of the country every year), but I find certain articles on the Christian Science Monitor to be excellent. This one I read today, reflicts one European conservative "post-neocon realpolitik" thinking:

The article is 6 pages and I highly recommend reading at least a few page's worth. It's pretty blunt. Quote:

"American policy has gone through different moments and trends. Robert Kaganâ€™s view in â€œThe Return of Historyâ€� is a caricature, but not entirely wrong. The US has retained a culture of power and force. They are not deluded idealists, whereas, since World War II, Europeans cultivated an illusion of becoming a great Switzerland. The Europeans have hope in a post-historic, post-traumatic, post-identity world -- a great international community. It would be possible if there were 6.5 billion Europeans on the planet! Thatâ€™s why I think Americaâ€™s attitude is in general more realistic, even though sometimes, the US uses force badly."

"The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld approach is not that different from the colonial powersâ€™ approach in the 19th century, which was working at the time but is not working now. The neocon approach of bringing democracy everywhere, relayed in France by [Foreign Minister Bernard] Kouchner under the concept of democratic intervention, doesnâ€™t work, either. We canâ€™t even manage to change a dictatorship like Burma."